Tourism continues to beat maximums with every passing month in the 2024 calendar. If January and February have been the months in which the most overseas vacationers arrived in Spain in the historic sequence measured by the INE, March confirmed that pattern, with 6.34 million of arrivals, which represented 21.1% extra and a brand new ceiling, far exceeding the 5.6 million of 2019. This statistic, nevertheless, is biased by the proven fact that Holy Week was celebrated this 12 months in March , whereas in 2019 it fell in April.
Despite this, if the comparability is made making an allowance for the first quarter, the distinction is obvious. Between January and March 2024, 16.1 million vacationers arrived at the predominant vacationer locations in Spain, which was 17.7% greater than in 2022 and 13.3% greater than the 14.2 million in 2019.
The Canary Islands, in the midst of a wave of tourismphobia, acquired 26.4% of overseas vacationers in the first quarter
By supply markets, the United Kingdom consolidated its management by sending nearly three million vacationers in the first quarter, with an annual development of 15.1% and a market share of 18.4%. Germany snatches second place from France, which it had held since the finish of 2022, with 2.05 million vacationers, 19.5% extra yearly and a weight of 12.7%, adopted by France, with 1.98 million vacationers and 12.2%. All the locations analyzed grew at double-digit charges, besides Portugal, whose entries solely grew by 0.8%.
(*16*)Spending development of 30%
The Canary Islands, nonetheless in the center of the excessive season, is the autonomous neighborhood that advantages the most from Spain’s tourism growth, because it consolidates itself as the most visited in the first quarter, with 4.27 million vacationers, 26.4% of the complete. This archipelago was the scene the place the first mass demonstrations towards mass tourism befell two weeks in the past by residents, who requested for the implementation of a vacationer tax and a moratorium on inns and housing for vacationer use. Catalonia (3.3 million) and Andalusia (2.3 million) are already far behind.
The spending made by these vacationers, which had grown at charges of 25% in January and February, adopted that pattern and shot up 30% to eight,562 million in March. In the first quarter amassed, the disbursement made by overseas vacationers additionally elevated by 28% to 21,948 million euros. If this development pattern continues in the coming quarters, 2024 might shut with a spending determine near 134,000 million euros, 42,000 million greater than in 2019. The higher arrival of vacationers has contributed to reaching this milestone, however above all all inflation and the change in traveler consumption patterns, who now prioritize journey over different bills.
The common expenditure per vacationer grew by 7.3% yearly to 1,363 euros per keep, whereas the common each day expenditure rose by 5.4% to 180 euros. Another proven fact that reinforces the thesis of the emergence of a brand new vacationer profile is the development in common stays, which have develop into 7.6 days, regardless of the sturdy development in lodge and vacationer housing costs. The common keep in inns was decreased to 5 days, whereas in the case of vacationer flats, tenting or rural homes it rose to 13 days.
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